Scientific Name: Pyrus salicifolia
Common Name: willowleaf pear
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Central / west Asia
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 5 - 7m x 4 - 5m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Upright
Form: Round, Weeping
Texture: Medium - fine
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Small garden/space
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media:
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Entire
Flowers: Corymb, White, Apr
Fruit: Edible, Pome, Green-yellow, Green, Aug-Sep
Key ID Features:
Pendulous cultivars common; leaves grayish, pubescence about the same on upper and lower surface, long and narrow; flowers white in April; pomes green during summer turning green-yellow by October, about 3cm long.